The blockade is clearing.
For two months, since 2025 No. 33 pick Carson Schwesigner and No. 34 pick Jayden Higgins signed fully-guaranteed rookie deals, the rest of the NFL’s second-round class has looked to the top of the round to see who’d blink first in contract negotiations.
And as a standoff between agents and front offices over guaranteed money continued into the start of some teams’ training camps — including the Broncos’ — Denver’s second-round pick RJ Harvey still floated in a void he didn’t create.
On Thursday, though, Denver agreed to terms with Harvey, a source confirmed to The Denver Post. It’s a standard four-year rookie deal at his slot value of $7.36 million, with a signing bonus of $1.99 million.
After first-round pick Jahdae Barron’s deal got done Tuesday night, the Broncos’ rookie class is now all-accounted for, after rookies were required to report for camp Wednesday.
As agents across the league negotiated for bigger slices of guaranteed money, following unprecedented fully-guaranteed deals for Schwesinger and Higgins, NFL Network reported that Chargers second-round pick Tre Harris didn’t report for the start of Los Angeles’ training camp Saturday. That set in motion the possibility of a holding pattern for second-rounders, with more teams requiring rookies to report this week.
On Wednesday night, though, ESPN reported the San Francisco 49ers had officially signed No. 43 pick Alfred Collins, which has since opened the floodgates as a precedent-setter for second-rounders below. After Schwesigner and Higgins signed fully-guaranteed, ESPN reported Collins received close to 90% of his deal guaranteed, an inflated number for a mid-second-round rookie deal.
Harvey would’ve only missed a day of Broncos camp amid the league-wide standoff. Denver now officially has a key member of its rookie class locked up, with the back widely impressing across offseason activities and set to be a major piece in Sean Payton’s offensive plans for the foreseeable future.
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